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Trump’s EPA invited companies to revise pollution records of the potent carcinogen ethylene oxide.

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Trump EPA Invited Companies to Revise Pollution Records of a Potent Carcinogen

Sharon Lerner

After ethylene oxide was shown to be 30 times more carcinogenic than previously thought, polluters began rewriting their toxic history — with the EPA’s help.

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White Supremacists, Conspiracy Theorists Are Targeting Cell Towers, Police Warn

Ken Klippenstein

Extremist groups joined forces in the weeks after the election to target critical infrastructure and “incite fear,” an NYPD intelligence report said.

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Liberal Think Tanks Outline Steps to Resuming Student Loan Payments in September

Rachel M. Cohen

The unhelpful memo comes amid popular calls to simply eliminate the debt.

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Drugmakers Promise Investors They’ll Soon Hike Covid Vaccine Prices

Lee Fang

Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson pledged affordable vaccines — but only as long as there’s a “pandemic.”

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Biden’s Justice Department Is Defending a Trump Rule That Restricts Options for Immigration Relief

Akela Lacy

A federal judge in California last week suspended implementation of the rule, while a judge in D.C. has questioned the Biden administration’s defense of it.

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Amazon Retaliated Against Chicago Workers Following Spring Covid-19 Protests, NLRB Finds

Rachel M. Cohen

Workers are now waiting to see how, and if, Amazon will agree to settle the claims.

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What Biden’s Talking Filibuster Could Look Like

Ryan Grim

Ending today’s filibuster rules would not be radical for Biden — just a return to how things worked when he entered the Senate in 1973.

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Tracking an Invisible Killer

Paul Abowd, Sharon Lerner, Verónica G. Cárdenas

Growing up, a group of eight friends in Groves, Texas, had never heard of ethylene oxide, a gas that poured from a chemical plant in their neighborhood. Now three of them are fighting cancer.

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Medicare for All Just Got a Massive Boost

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With a major new co-sponsor, the House’s single-payer bill seems to have found new life.

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Hope Is a Discipline: Mariame Kaba on Dismantling the Carceral State

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Organizer Mariame Kaba talks about her new book “We Do This ’Til We Free Us.”

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“The Bernie team won,” so the entire staff of the state Democratic Party quit.

Friday, March 19, 2021

The entire staff of the Nevada Democratic Party just quit after progressives won control of the party. In a huge victory for progressives and the culmination of years of grassroots organizing, a slate

CIA Headquarters Got Vaccinated in Early January

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

“Nobody gives a shit about the overseas workforce,” a former CIA officer complained. MOST READ A Year Later, Tara Reade Works to Correct the Record Ryan Grim An attorney for Tara Reade has approached a

“Cherry” and Hollywood’s Treatment of Robbers and Victims

Saturday, March 13, 2021

The new film starring Tom Holland illustrates how our culture elevates the outlaws and sidelines their victims. MOST READ Inside the Oil Industry's Fight to Roll Back Tribal Sovereignty After

Entire Staff of Nevada Democratic Party Quits After Democratic Socialist Slate Won Every Seat

Wednesday, March 10, 2021

The battle between insurgent progressives in Nevada and the Harry Reid machine began building in 2016. MOST READ Entire Staff of Nevada Democratic Party Quits After Democratic Socialist Slate Won Every

Mitch McConnell Working With Kentucky Legislature on Senate Exit Strategy

Saturday, March 6, 2021

The power to appoint a US senator's replacement currently falls to Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear. McConnell has other ideas. MOST READ Why Did Police Never Solve the Murder of a Prominent Portland

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